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Alma Thomas Alma W. Thomas (1891–1978) was an African American color field painter. Born and raised in Columbus, Georgia, Thomas moved
to Washington, D.C. with her family in 1907. She was the first graduate
from the Howard University art department in 1924. Her early art
was realistic, but delved into abstration influenced by the work
of her professors Lois Mailou Jones and James Herring. The new approach
she developed is what she became known for; large canvases were
filled with irregular brightly colored patterns. These works have
been compared to Byzantine mosaics and the pointillism of Georges
Seurat. |
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